Know your Spot
True or False: The only thing that Spot does is prescribe buprenorphine (Suboxone).
False. Bonus- name 3 other services?
True or false: CCCC has a vending machine that provides harm-reduction supplies 24 hours a day.
True.
True or false: Harm reduction requires a person to stop using substances before receiving healthcare.
False
This CCCC program takes place on Monday Nights for female-identifying clients.
Women's Night
What does Spot provide to patients to help them pick up their prescription without any issues?
A Spot program photo ID
A patient presents to the Spot without health insurance. What happens?
Spot helps with insurance enrollment and still sees them for a visit that day and can cover medication/labs costs for that visit!
Name one basic hygiene-related service offered at the drop-in center.
Showers/bathroom, clothes closet, laundry, hygiene kits, hand sanitizer.
This medication can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is available as a nasal spray.
Naloxone (Narcan, RiVive)
True or False: An appointment is necessary to see the Spot team.
False.
A CCCC staff person is uncertain if Spot can assist a client with their complaint. What should they do?
Speak with Ms. Kim or Spot registration/nurse
How does any CCCC staff member refer a new client to Spot?
Speak to Ms Kim OR directly to Spot registration or nurse.
This CCCC team goes out into the community to meet people, offer supplies and do syringe clean-up.
Blue or gray lips, slowed or stopped breathing, and inability to wake someone are signs of this emergency.
Opioid overdose.
These two Spot materials contain the weekly Spot schedule, the tele line number and a list of services.
Palm cards, Printed schedule
In order to access methadone for OUD, a patient must go to this type of program.
Outpatient Treatment Program (OTP) or Methadone Clinic/Program.
True or False: A government ID and health insurance are required in order to see the Spot.
False.
Name three types of safer-use supplies available through CCCC besides injection supplies.
Safer smoking kits, drug testing strips, naloxone
These strips can be used to check a drug sample for the presence of this powerful synthetic opioid.
Fentanyl test strips.
These are the regular daily hours of the CCCC drop-in center.
Monday - Thursday, 9AM - 4PM
What did Charm City Care Connection used to be called?
Charm City Clinic
Name a location where the Spot truck is on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
Monroe & Lombard (Tuesdays), Fremont & Laurens (Thursdays)
Name three types of personal documents CCCC case management can help someone obtain.
ID, birth certificate, Social Security card.
Syringe programs are successful at reducing transmission of these two blood-borne infections.
HIV and hepatitis C
If a Spot patient arrives to CCCC at a time when Spot is not on site, where should they be directed?
Spot tele line: 443-483-6150
Name one of the monthly injectable medication for OUD (that Spot is prescribing!).
Sublocade or Brixadi.